​JUANA ANNOUNCES: Straydog Radio Show covering the events at Straydog today, Tuesday, August 2, 2016, with a special report on the adoption of big pup Marshall. Before Marshall was adopted, we had a big vet visit. We had to take some of our doggies to the vet and leave them there. Then Dr. Erica Dumeyer texted me and let me know what was going on with these doggies. I needed the van to go on Marshall’s home visit, after we dropped the dogs at the vet.​

​The first picture of the day was of momma dog Minnie.

She had just had her second and third heartworm treatments. She is recovering very well, but she was coughing. She had a really bad odor on her behind and it worried me. I didn’t know if it was normal. At first, I thought it was just as a result of her giving birth to all those puppies. It hasn’t gone away and we needed to check her out. There’s Wayne walking Minnie to the van.

​There’s Shelby bringing Chihuahua Al to the van.

He has ben having skin issues. All of his back hair was missing and I didn't think it was mange. I thought he might have a skin infection. We wanted to see what was going on with this big boy Chihuahua Al.

​Our little puppy Chihuahua PoPo is only about five or six months old and she was ready to be spayed. She had all of her shots last Tuesday. Poor PoPo didn’t have any food or water after midnight, because she was going to be spayed today.

​One of our Adoption Day volunteers reported that Mr. Winston’s ears were kind of smelly this past Saturday.

His eyes were also kind of goopy. He was bathed very well, before he went to Adoption Day. So I didn’t know what was going on with his ears. I thought he might have an ear infection so I sent him to Morton to be checked out.

​Maci was carrying puppy Millie. She was going to the clinic for her second set of puppy shots. She’s still too young to be spayed.

​There’s Millie with PoPo.

​There’s Winston in the crate.

​There’s Minnie waiting in the van.

​The kittens were going to get their last set of kitten shots. Dr. Dumeyer said that they are still too young to be fixed. They will have to go back for that in about a month or so.

​Tyler took all of these doggies and kittens to the vet and dropped them off. And Bill and I were going to take Marshall on a home visit. We were planning to pick all of these babies up at the vet on our way home from the home visit.

​This is my niece Blanca.

She is spending her vacation with us and helping us at Straydog. She wanted to see what her Aunts Juana (me) and Esther (my sister) do at Straydog. She is really enjoying it. This is her last week with us. She will be going back to college to finish her masters and then she will be going to Germany. There’s Blanca with Blondie and Tobi in the park.

​There’s Blanca taking Blondie and Tobi back to their kennel.

​Before we took Marshall on his home visit, I asked Shelby and Maci to bathe him so he would be very handsome. He was such a good boy in the bathtub. All of these pictures were of him enjoying his bath.

​​Maci dried Marshall with a towel. He was so happy. He was shaking the water off. He is such a good puppy.

​We had enough people working here today and we started bleaching all of the kennels. There’s DJ pouring some bleach in the spray bottle. We bleached all of the kennels, built up the kennels and raked them. We bleached all of the pathways.

​There’s Wayne bleaching Ebony and Nelson’s kennel.

​We thought Marshall would stay with these potential adopters, because they didn’t have any other dogs. We thought that the home visit would be easy. This man came to our shelter to see Marshall on Friday after visiting him twice at the Boat Show. He was very interested in Marshall. It’s a long drive from Pottsboro to our shelter. It’s about a three-hour drive. We thought this home visit was going to work.

​Because Marshall lived with Tarzan, we wanted to see if Shuby would accept her son Tarzan again. We knew Tarzan would get along with her, but we wanted to see if Shuby would accept him. There’s Katrina bringing Tarzan to the Shirley Olsen Beemer Park.

​There’s Maci bringing Shuby to the park.

​Tarzan was very happy to see his mother. Shuby was happy at first, but then she started to beat up on him. She started getting more and more aggressive. We were very careful with them. We kept walking them and talking to Shuby. But unfortunately, it didn’t work. We removed Tarzan from her, because she was dog aggressive and we didn’t want her to raise him to be an aggressive dog. We didn’t have anyone else to put him with, but this wasn’t going to work. Tarzan is such a happy boy and he’s such a good puppy. We took Shuby back to her kennel by herself.

​We wanted to try someone else with puppy Tarzan, so we tried Luigi. Katrina brought Luigi to the park. Tarzan was so happy and wanted to play and have a friend.

​Luigi wasn’t happy, but he wasn’t aggressive. Luigi was growling. He was hanging on to Katrina and he wanted to go back.

​​We wanted to find someone for Tarzan right away. He is such a good boy. We will try to introduce Tarzan to someone else tomorrow, but so far we haven’t had any luck. We’ll keep thinking about it.

﻿​There’s Rafael and Quinn in the Pat Arnold Park. They were running and playing, while Blanca was doing walks.

​​Then it was time to take Marshall on his home visit. Wayne brought Marshall to the van.

Bill and I drove all of the way to Pottsboro. It’s north of Sherman, near the Oklahoma border. It was really worth the drive. It was a beautiful home. We met Joe Sharp and he was so happy to see Marshall. Marshall recognized him right away and they were both so happy.

​Joe grew up with dogs in his family. Marshall’s new family is going to fence the yard and they have a temporary kennel to use for potty breaks.

​He is going to be an inside dog. Joe works from home and he will potty train him. I told him Marshall wasn’t potty trained, but Mr. Sharp will work on that. Bill and I were so happy to leave him. This was a great match and it was such a good home visit. When Bill and I left Mr. Sharp’s home, Mr. Sharp wanted to take Marshall to the vet for a microchip right away. I told him that Marshall had been vetted and was neutered and he had all of his shots, but Mr. Sharp still wanted to take him to the vet and make sure he was okay. Mr. Sharp filled out the contract and we talked. We gave Mr. Sharp some puppy food, so he could mix it with whatever he wants to feed Marshall and gradually introduce him to the new food. Mr. Sharp plans to feed Marshall Wellness Blue, which is one of the top foods and we were happy to see that. Mr. Sharp filled out the contract, while I tried to put Marshall’s rabies tag on his collar. We took some pictures and then we left to drive towards home.

​We stopped at Morton Clinic to pick up all of the babies and come home. PoPo was spayed and was ready to come home.

​There’s Millie with the young vet tech. I don’t know this vet tech’s name.

She was very nice and she brought everybody out for us.

​Al was ready to go.

​She brought out the crate of all of the kittens.

​Here's Winston coming out.

Here's Millie coming out.

​Dr. Dumeyer texted her report to me. The kittens got their last kitten shots. We will have to wait to have them fixed. The smell on Minnie’s hiney was her anal glands. They had to be expressed. They were impacted and we will have to express them again in about a week. I don’t know what caused that smell. I have never had this problem before, but we will do what the doctor wants us to do. Winston’s ears were fine. They were just dirty and the doctor cleaned them up with some ear wash. We are going to wash his ears every day. His eyes look very good. Millie got her second set of puppy shots. PoPo was spayed. Al had a skin infection and the doctor sent him home with something to bathe him with twice a week until his skin infection goes away.